Dr. Franqui-Rivera specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American history. He studies the condition of Puerto Rican veterans and their impact in society; imperial-colonial relations, and the role that military service and institutions play in nation-building and the development of national identities. He is the author of two forthcoming books: Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952 and Fighting on Two Fronts: The Experience of the Puerto Rican Soldiers in the Korean War.Dr. Franqui-Rivera served 11 years in the Army National Guard and Reserve.

Mariette KalinowskiCoordinator for Student Veteran ServicesThe New School for Social Research

Mariette Kalinowski oversees the successful transition and VA funding of veterans' and dependents' education. She is a graduate of Hunter College, first as a BA in English and again as an MFA in Fiction. Her opinion pieces have appeared in various venues, including The New York Times, and she is published in the anthology Fire and Forget: Short Stories Long War. In addition to her professional work with veterans, she is working on her first novel. Mariette Kalinowski is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, with two tours in Iraq, and she helped to found the current Hunter College Student Veteran Club.

Lieutenant Colonel Pete KilnerU.S. Military Academy, West PointU.S. Army, Academy ProfessorDepartment of English and Philosophy

Lt. Col Kilner is an active-duty Army officer who has served on the faculty at West Point for 14 years. Previously, he was an enlisted infantryman and infantry officer. For 22 years, he has been researching and writing about moral experiences in war and what has come to be known as moral injury. He conducted research missions to Iraq (2003, 2007) and Afghanistan (2009, 2010, 2011) to embed with units and conduct in-depth interviews of combat leaders. He speaks to soldiers often about the moral justification of killing in war, using both rights-based and love-based arguments.

Professor Kowerski’s academic interests include ancient literature, particularly early Greek poetry, Greek literary traditions, and Greek historiography. His studies include Greek elegy/epigram-poetry closely tied to experiences ofwar. Most recently, he has engaged in an extensive study of a recently published elegy by Simonides on the Persian Wars, which is, in the Greek context, an early (if not the earliest) example of recent warriors being given hero status.

Dr. Eckhard Kuhn-OsiusHunter College, Department ofGerman

Professor Kuhn-Osius has strong interests in war literature with a focus on German right-wing responses toWorld War I. Stemming from his German family’s experiences with two world wars, his concerns include thefunction of war literature for the survivors of war. He has published research on war literature on World War I,arguing that this era marks a turning point insofar as the focus in Germany shifts from political and strategicconcerns to the war experiences of the soldiers. These are used as justification for war and compensation for otherwise unsatisfactory outcomes. Most recently, he has studied how this pattern is repeated in literarytreatments of recent wars.

Dr. Martin is a licensed counseling psychologist with a subspecialty in clinical neuropsychology, and a certifiedrehabilitation counselor. Her research areas include women with disabilities, pediatric brain injury, andeducational adaptations and behavioral strategies to improve performance of students with cognitiveimpairments. Dr. Martin is also an avid fly fisher. She combined her skills as a rehabilitation psychologist with her love of fly fishing to support veterans with disabilities when she established “Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing” (PHWFF) in 2008. The program offers an alternative approach to recovery and community integration for active duty military personnel and veterans with disabilities who have endured the stress of serving in harm’s way.

Brian MartineauAcademic AdvisorHunter College, Office of Advising

Brian Martineau holds degrees in Communications, with a concentration on Media Administration, and Student Development and Counseling. He has worked in higher education for six years in various functional areas, including Residence Life, Student Activities, Event Management, and Advising. In his role as an Academic Advisor, he assists student veterans in making the transition from military to civilian life in the atmosphere of a college setting. As part of the Student Veteran Services team, he serves as a Certifying Official for Educational Benefits through Veteran Affairs, advising veteran students of academic opportunities, career planning, internships, and extracurricular programming.

Dr. James MuyskensUniversity ProfessorThe Graduate Center, CUNY,

Dr. Muyskens’ academic field is philosophy with a focus on ethics, including biomedical ethics. From 2002-2013, he was president of Queens College. He began his professional career in the Philosophy Department at Hunter and currently directs Hunter’s Athena Honors Scholars Program, which provides academic programming and advising for talented students with interests in philosophy, literature, culture, languages, and religion.

Professor Petersen thinks of himself first as an ethnographer, and has spent long periods living and working in the Pacific islands. Much of his work there has involved in helping the people of what would become the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) bring an end to American colonial rule over their islands. He served on the United Nations mission for the FSM after they achieved independence. For the past decade or so, he has been studying war as a total phenomenon and is currently writing a book that is an anthropological analysis of his own experiences in the Vietnam War. He teaches several courses on war-related issues, including “War and the Arc of Human Experience” in the Macaulay Honors College.

Samya SethPsychoanalystHunter College, Department of English

Semya Seth is completing his PhD in English at Fordham University on the interface of psychoanalysis and literature around the turn from the 19th to the 20th centuries, and his dissertation is titled The Claims of the Unread: The Work of Literature around the Moment of the Unconscious. He is a practicing psychoanalyst, and his primaryinterests are Lacan and continental philosophy. Over the past few years, he has translated several articles on Lacanian psychoanalysis from French to English for print journals in the Freudian field.

Dr. Mark ZelcerSUNY Oswego, Department ofPhilosophy

Professor Zelcer spent many years at CUNY as a student and adjunct faculty member. He earned his BA and PhD in philosophy and an MA in political science. He has published in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, ancientpolitical philosophy, and military ethics, among other topics. For the past 13 years, he has served in the US Army Reserves, including a year in Iraq. In the Army, he has worked as a Transportation officer and a Psychological Operations officer. He has participated in discussions on the changing face of war and has been active in CUNY veterans organizations.

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